Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey I posted this past week! Your feedback clearly indicated to me two things: most of you like the focused, concise, simple nature of the quotes, but most of you are also open to a wider range of content.

I am going to start experimenting with posting new types of content. I’m hoping that this will provide you with additional sources of inspiration extending beyond the quotes. For now, I am going to reduce quote postings to twice a week and reserve at least once a week for other types of articles. This schedule may change based on your feedback and overall reception to the new types of posts.

The default RSS feed will include all posts. For those of you who are only interested in the quotes, I created a separate feed that you can subscribe to. As I add different types of content to this site, I’ll provide separate RSS feeds for those as well so you can subscribe to the content that you’re most interested in.

Please send me your feedback as this site evolves! This site exists for the User Experience community, and I want to make it as useful as possible.

“Designers are by nature more inquisitive, more connected. They dig a little deeper in terms of insights. They turn those insights into innovation. That connection to the consumer is absolutely critical in driving innovation. It’s critical that design isn’t subjugated to the back room as a short order cook for marketing or for merchandising or sales. It has to be up front.” – Mark Parker

“We think too much about what we are trying to achieve, about what we have designed or built, and thus in terms of what it does or should do. That leads us to think in terms of controlling outcomes, or tweaking features for new behaviors… Social is happening out there, and your users do not have you or your product in mind, but their own experiences and those they share them with. Change your frame.” – Adrian Chan

“The possibilities for applying playfulness to applications are endless… Many designers have rebranded themselves in recent years, changing their job description from interaction designer to user experience designer. Let’s make our work follow suit. Instead of thinking only in terms of interaction, start designing user experiences.” – Shira Gutgold

I’ve been posting User Experience quotes here on inspireUX for over 2 years now. This site has grown beyond any of my expectations, and I’m incredibly happy with the response it’s received within the UX community. The downside is that after posting 334 quotes to date, it’s become increasingly difficult to find unique and valuable quotes to share with all of you. It’s time for me to consider the future of this site, and whether it should grow in scope to include more than just quotes.

I’d really appreciate your feedback about this by answering a short anonymous survey that should only take 2-3 minutes to fill out. Your responses will help me figure out whether expanding this site’s content would be “useful, usable, and desirable” (sorry – I couldn’t resist!).

“The situation we are in not only effects how we think about things, it also plays a major role in how we conduct ourselves and how we make decisions… It is incredibly important to design for situations, not just for demographics or so-called personality traits.” – Brie Anne Demkiw